schindylesis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek a splitting into fragments.
Noun
schindylesis (plural schindyleses)
- (anatomy) A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for schindylesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)